Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

More than a year ago Anya made a paper crown after learning about the biblical character ‘Queen Esther’.

And a few days ago, after Anya re-read about how brave and dependent upon God Queen Esther was, we made crowns again. But this time round, Vai and Keira – their 3yo cousin who’s here on holiday – joined in the fun!

What we used :
– Green-coloured paper carton (to go around the head as the crown)
– Glue, scissors, crayons, masking tape
– Any recycled paper cartons as ‘jewels’ (we chose a light bulb box from our to-be-recycled bag)

Optional:
– Coloured paper and ‘pattern cutter’ (we used a pink-coloured paper and our ‘tree pattern’ cutter)

What we did:
– I cut out long strips (about 3.5cm wide) from the green carton and made one side of it ‘spiky’
– I cut out square-shapes (the light bulb box) and the kids coloured their ‘jewels’ with crayons
– Kids glued the ‘tree patterns’ and ‘coloured jewels’ onto their own ‘crown’
– I wrapped the green strip of paper around each of the kid’s head to roughly gauge the head’s diameter, and taped the two ends together to make a crown

That’s it!

AND, to make things more fun, we did some role-playing afterwards.

Anya was Queen Esther, Keira held multiple roles and Vai was the King (and I guess that made him a ‘Vai-King’? hehe)

Vai wore Anya’s bath robes (!) while Anya and Keira had plain clothes on their back, with the front bit pinned near the chest (I used clothes pegs!)

I created simple dialogues and the kids tried to follow what I said word by word. They laughed themselves silly while the adults watched and giggled. We all had fun!

And most importantly, I think the kids remembered the story better too after that session!